The school is intended for advanced graduate students and beginning postdoctoral researchers interested in applying gauge/string duality to problems in nuclear and condensed matter physics.

Our school will give an introduction to the methods commonly referred to as "holography" and its applications to heavy ion physics and strongly correlated condensed matter systems. There will be introductory lectures on string theory and the two areas of application, as well as more advanced lectures addressing explicit examples where holography has been used to gain new insights.

Introductory Lectures:

AdS/CFT Basics - John McGreevy (MIT)

Quantum matter and gauge-gravity duality - Subir Sachdev (Harvard)

Quark-Gluon Plasma in QCD, at the LHC and RHIC, and in String Theory - Krishna Rajagopal (MIT)

Accepted participants will receive an official invitation from the Institute for Nuclear Theory, with further instructions.

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recreational activities in the city and the surrounding mountains
and bodies of water, and many cultural activities in the city,
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